# Deaths in May 2004
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2004.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## May 2004
### 1

* Ejler Bille, 94, Danish artist.
* Vladimir Chernyshov, 52, Russian volleyball player and Olympic champion.
* Shimon Even, 68, Israeli computer science researcher.
* Ram Prakash Gupta, 80, Indian politician.
* Felix Haug, 52, Swiss pop musician (Double), heart attack.
* Larkin Kerwin, 79, Canadian physicist.
* Lojze Kovačič, 75, Slovene writer.
* Jean-Jacques Laffont, 57, French economist, cancer.
* John Howland Rowe, 85, American archaeologist and anthropologist.

### 2

* Moe Burtschy, 82, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
* Duncan Carse, 91, English explorer and actor.
* Nelson Gidding, 84, American screenwriter, congestive heart failure.
* Paul Guimard, 83, French writer.
* John Hammersley, 84, British mathematician.
* Allan Lindberg, 85, Swedish Olympic pole vaulter.
* Hyam Maccoby, 80, Jewish-British scholar and dramatist.
* Tony Poeta, 71, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).

### 3

* Anthony Ainley, 71, British actor (Doctor Who), cancer.
* Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
* Ken Downing, 86, English racing driver.
* Darrell Johnson, 75, American MLB catcher and manager, cancer.
* Volus Jones, 90, American animator.
* Gilbert Lani Kauhi, 66, American actor and comedian, diabetes.
* James Mace, 52, American historian, professor, and researcher.
* Lygia Pape, 77, Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, and filmmaker.
* Derrick Robins, 89, English cricket player and sports promoter.
* Vladimir Terebilov, 88, Soviet judge and politician.

### 4

* Coxsone Dodd, 72, Jamaican reggae pioneer, heart attack.
* Tage Frid, 88, Danish woodworker, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Hugh Gillin, 78, American actor (Back to the Future Part III).
* Torsten Hägerstrand, 87, Swedish geographer, inventor of time geography.
* Boris Petrovsky, 95, Soviet and Russian general surgeon.
* David Reimer, 39, Canadian gender-reassignment victim, suicide by gunshot.
* Erik Smith, 73, German-British music producer.
* Jean-Pierre Vigier, 84, French theoretical physicist.

### 5

* Thea Beckman, 80, Dutch author of children's books (Crusade in Jeans).
* John Cornforth, 66, English architectural historian.
* José Maceda, 87, Filipino composer and ethnomusicologist.
* Kate Mundt, 74, Danish film actress.
* Ritsuko Okazaki, 44, Japanese singer-songwriter and author, sepsis.
* František Sláma, 80, Czech chamber music performer.

### 6

* Virginia Capers, 78, American actress (Raisin, Lady Sings the Blues, Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Tony winner (1974), pneumonia.
* Pepper Gomez, 77, American professional wrestler and bodybuilder, gastritis.
* Kjell Hallbing, (aka Louis Masterson), 69, Norwegian author of westerns.
* Philip Kapleau, 91, American teacher of Zen Buddhism.
* Barney Kessel, 80, American jazz guitarist and studio musician, brain cancer.
* James A. Krumhansl, 84, American physicist.
* Joe Lafata, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Charlotte Thiele, 85, German actress.
* Daniel Thompson, 69, American poet.

### 7

* Nick Berg, 26, American businessman and hostage, beheaded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq.
* Joseph Crespo, 79, French rugby player.
* Douglas John Foskett, 85, British librarian.
* Oliver David Jackson, 84, Australian army officer.
* William J. Knight, 74, American Vietnam War combat pilot, astronaut and politician, leukemia.
* Waldemar Milewicz, 48, Polish war journalist, killed in Iraq.

### 8

* Lewis Caine, 39, Australian organised crime figure, murdered during the Melbourne gangland killings.
* António Champalimaud, 86, Portuguese banker and industrialist.
* Valentin Ezhov, 83, Soviet and Russian screenwriter and playwright, stroke.
* Quentin Hughes, 84, British architect and army officer.
* Robert P. Multhauf, 84, American science historian, curator, and author.
* John Peel, 91, British politician, MP for Leicester South East (1957–1974).
* Ronnie Robinson, 53, American basketball player.

### 9

* Laxmi Chhaya, 56, Indian actress, dancer and teacher, cancer.
* Tommy Farrell, 82, American film and television actor.
* Brenda Fassie, 39, South African singer, AIDS-related complications.
* Alan Gewirth, 91, American philosopher and author, cancer.
* Akhmad Kadyrov, 52, Chechen politician, President of Chechnya, land mine explosion.
* Alan King, 76, American comedian and actor, lung cancer.
* Wayne McLeland, 79, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Olive Osmond, 79, American matriarch of the Osmond singing family.
* Sido L. Ridolfi, 90, American politician.
* Walter H. Stockmayer, 90, American chemist and university teacher.
* Percy M. Young, 91, British musicologist.

### 10

* Orvar Bergmark, 73, Swedish football player and manager.
* Ray Ferritto, 75, American mobster associated with the Cleveland and Los Angeles crime families.
* Phil Gersh, 92, American talent and literary agent.
* Eric Kierans, 90, Canadian economist and politician.
* Portland Mason, 55, British-American child actress and writer.
* Ershad Sikder, 49, Bangladeshi politician, criminal, and serial killer, executed.
* Ibsen Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic rower (men's coxed four rowing at the 1936 Summer Olympics).
* Dennis Wilshaw, 78, English international footballer, heart attack.

### 11

* Mick Doyle, 63, Irish rugby union player and coach, traffic collision.
* Danny McLennan, 79, Scottish football player and coach.
* Abdul Reza Pahlavi, 79, Iranian royal and member of the Pahlavi dynasty.
* Ku Sang, 84, Korean poet.
* Alf Valentine, 74, West Indian cricket player.
* John Whitehead, 55, American R&B artist, shot.
* Giorgos Zongolopoulos, 101, Greek sculptor, painter and architect.

### 12

* Álvaro Cardoso, 90, Portuguese football player.
* Syd Hoff, 91, American children's author and cartoonist.
* John LaPorta, 84, American jazz clarinetist, composer and educator, stroke.
* Dave Piontek, 69, American professional basketball player (Rochester / Cincinnati Royals, St. Louis Hawks, Chicago Packers).
* John Robson, 54, English footballer, multiple sclerosis (MS).
* Alexander Skutch, 99, American naturalist, writer, and ornithologist.

### 13

* Kjell Bækkelund, 74, Norwegian classical pianist.
* Magnar Estenstad, 79, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic silver medalist.
* Bergfrid Fjose, 89, American politician.
* Muhammad Nawaz, 79, Pakistani Olympic javelin thrower (men's javelin throw at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics).
* Carlo Scarascia-Mugnozza, 84, Italian politician.
* Evon Z. Vogt, 86, American cultural anthropologist.

### 14

* Rudi Arndt, 77, American politician.
* Charlotte Benkner, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest recognized person in United States.
* Rip Coleman, 72, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles).
* Günter Gaus, 74, German journalist and commentator.
* Jesús Gil, 71, Spanish businessman and politician, controversial owner of Atlético Madrid football club, stroke.
* Bill Hoffman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Jack Holland, 56, Irish journalist, novelist, and poet, cancer.
* Torsten Johansson, 84, Swedish tennis player.
* Anna Lee, 91, British-American actress, pneumonia.
* Lu Leonard, 77, American actress.
* Shaun Sutton, 84, British television executive.

### 15

* Gloria E. Anzaldúa, 61, American writer, academic and feminist, diabetes.
* Jack Bradbury, 89, American animator (Pinocchio, Bambi, Fantasia) and comic book artist, kidney failure.
* Marius Constant, 79, Romanian-French composer and conductor.
* Gill Fox, 88, American political cartoonist, comic book artist, and animator.
* Henrique Frade, 69, Brazilian football player.
* William H. Hinton, 85, American writer, and marxist, author of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village.
* Narciso Ibáñez Menta, 91, Spanish actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Tatsuya Mihashi, 80, Japanese actor.
* Robert K. Morgan, 85, American US Air Force pilot, former pilot of the Memphis Belle, injuries from a fall.
* Clint Warwick, 63, British bass guitarist (The Moody Blues), hepatitis.

### 16

* Riccardo Brengola, 87, Italian violinist and professor.
* June Carroll, 87, American lyricist, singer and actress.
* Jim Colclough, 68, American gridiron football player.
* Simone Del Duca, 91, French businesswoman and philanthropist.
* Peter Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, 89, British Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet.
* Kamala Markandaya, 80, Indian novelist and journalist.
* Marika Rökk, 90, Egyptian-German actress, heart attack.
* Billy Stone, 78, American professional football player (Bradley University, Baltimore Colts, Chicago Bears).
* June Taylor, 86, American television dancer and choreographer.

### 17

* Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, 97, South African naturalist and museum official.
* Gunnar Graps, 57, Estonian rock singer and percussionist, heart attack.
* Ken Mudford, 81, New Zealand Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
* Buster Narum, 63, American baseball Major League Baseball pitcher (Orioles, Senators).
* Jørgen Nash, 84, Danish poet and performance artist.
* Tony Randall, 84, American actor (Pillow Talk, The Odd Couple, Inherit the Wind), Emmy winner (1975), pneumonia.
* James Armstrong Richardson, 82, Canadian member of House of Commons, Minister of Supply and Services, Minister of National Defence.
* Cathy Rosier, 59, French model and actress, aneurysm.
* Ezzedine Salim, 60–61, Iraqi politician, president of the Iraqi Governing Council.
* Enrique Zobel, 77, Filipino businessman, pilot, and polo player.

### 18

* Çetin Alp, 56, Turkish singer, heart attack.
* Arnold Orville Beckman, 104, American inventor, industrialist and philanthropist.
* John Maxwell Cowley, 81, Australian-American physicist and academic.
* Heinrich Isser, 76, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
* Elvin Jones, 76, American jazz drummer, John Coltrane Quartet of the 1960s, heart attack.
* Lincoln Kilpatrick, 72, American actor, lung cancer.
* Hyacinthe Thiandoum, 83, Senegalese Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Dakar.

### 19

* Mary Dresselhuys, 97, Dutch actress and comedian.
* Jack Eckerd, 91, American businessman.
* Haruhiko Kindaichi, 91, Japanese linguist and a scholar of kokugogaku.
* Melvin J. Lasky, 84, American journalist, intellectual and anti-communist.
* Robert David MacDonald, 74, Scottish playwright, translator and theatre director.
* Arnold Moore, 90, American blues artist.
* John Naka, 89, American horticulturist, teacher, author, and master bonsai cultivator.
* E. K. Nayanar, 87, Indian politician, three-time Chief Minister of Kerala, India, heart attack.
* Carl Raddatz, 92, German stage and film actor.
* Elvio Romero, 77, Paraguayan poet.
* Leonid Shcherbakov, 77, Russian triple jumper and Olympic silver medalist.

### 20

* Gary Ballman, 63, American gridiron football player.
* Lúcio de Castro, 93, Brazilian Olympic pole vaulter.
* Sophie Charlotte Ducker, 95, German-Australian botanist.
* Stanisław Gronkowski, 82, Polish actor.
* Len Murray, 81, British trade union leader, pneumonia.
* Claire Wilbur, 70, American actress and Academy Award-winning producer of short films, lung cancer.

### 21

* Jean-Pierre Blanc, 62, French film director and screenwriter, cancer.
* Proinsias Mac Cana, 77, Academic and Celtic scholar.
* June Cochran, 62, American model and beauty queen.
* Gunnar Dahlen, 86, Norwegian football player.
* Rick Henderson, 76, American jazz alto saxophonist and arranger.
* Toshikazu Kase, 101, Japanese civil servant and diplomat, heart attack.
* Gene Wood, 78, American television personality and announcer of game shows, lung cancer.

### 22

* Richard Biggs, 44, American actor (Babylon 5, Days of Our Lives, Strong Medicine), aortic dissection.
* Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr., 76, American businessman, fourth generation president of SC Johnson company.
* Zinovy Korogodsky, 77, Russian theater director and academic.
* Alexandr Savko, 37, Belarusian wrestler, heart attack.
* Mikhail Voronin, 59, Russian gymnast, double Olympic champion, cancer.

### 23

* Adele Leigh, 75, English operatic soprano, heart attack.
* Ramon Margalef, 85, Spanish biologist and ecologist.
* Trudy Marshall, 84, American actress, lung cancer.
* Harry Preston, 72, Canadian Olympic field hockey player (Field hockey at the 1964 Summer Olympics).
* Maxime Rodinson, 89, French historian, sociologist and orientalist.

### 24

* Ya'akov Grundman, 64, Polish-Israeli football player and manager, cancer.
* Prentice Marshall, 77, American district judge, bladder cancer.
* Henry Ries, 86, American photographer, known for his photos of the 1948 Berlin Air Lift.
* Milton Shulman, 90, Canadian author, film and theatre critic.
* Edward Wagenknecht, 104, American literary critic and teacher.

### 25

* Nikolai Chernykh, 72, Soviet and Russian astronomer.
* David Dellinger, 88, American antiwar activist, member of Chicago Eight.
* Antonia Ivanova, 74, Bulgarian grandmaster chess player.
* Nicholas Luard, 66, British writer and politician.
* Robert P. Sharp, 92, American geomorphologist and expert on the geology of Earth and Mars.
* Roger Williams Straus, Jr., 87, American publisher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux).
* Brooke Wilberger, 19, American student.

### 26

* Robert Chapman, 81, New Zealand political scientist and historian.
* Gino de Pellegrín, 77, Argentine Olympic alpine skier.
* Rewata Dhamma, 74, Burmese Theravada Buddhist monk and scholar.
* Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, 93, Scottish landowner and a financier.

### 27

* Umberto Agnelli, 69, Italian industrialist, head of Fiat, lymphoma.
* Denis ApIvor, 88, British composer.
* Patience Cleveland, 73, American actress (Donnie Darko, Psycho III, General Hospital), cancer.
* Ladislav Hecht, 94, Czechoslovak tennis player.
* Jim Marshall, 63, British Labour MP, heart attack.
* Mikhail Postnikov, 76, Soviet mathematician, known for his work in algebraic and differential topology.
* Sigrid Lorenzen Rupp, 61, German-American architect, stomach cancer.
* Ronald Smith, 82, British classical pianist and teacher.
* Werner Tübke, 74, German painter.

### 28

* Michael Alison, 77, British Privy Council member, minister and MP.
* Gerald Anthony, 52, American actor, best known for playing Marco Dane on the TV show One Life to Live, suicide.
* Vittore Branca, 90, Italian philologist, literary critic, and academic.
* Harvey Brooks, 88, American physicist.
* Francis Brunn, 81, German juggler.
* Josie Carey, 73, American lyricist, host of children's show "Children's Corner".
* Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, 82, French photographer.
* Jerzy Klempel, 51, Polish Olympic handball player and coach.
* Irene Manning, 91, American actress and singer (Yankee Doodle Dandy), heart failure.
* Catherine Dean May, 90, American politician.

### 29

* Lawrence Rosario Abavana, 84, Ghanaian politician and teacher.
* Anjuman Ara Begum, 62, Bangladeshi vocalist, pneumonia.
* Barry Brown, 42, Jamaican reggae singer, head trauma following fall.
* Zebedy Colt, 74, American actor, musician, and adult film director.
* Archibald Cox, 92, American lawyer, Watergate special prosecutor.
* Samuel Dash, 79, American lawyer, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate scandal, heart failure.
* Magne Havnå, 40, Norwegian professional boxer, boating accident.
* Jack Rosenthal, 72, British television dramatist, multiple myeloma.
* Forrest Tucker, 83, American career criminal.
* Ivica Šerfezi, 68, Croatian pop singer, stomach cancer.

### 30

* Fenner Albert Chace, 95, American carcinologist.
* Raymond M. Clausen, Jr., 56, American marine, Medal of Honour recipient, liver failure.
* Alfred Coppel, 82, American author.
* Gérard de Sède, 82, French author.
* Rafał Kurmański, 21, Polish speedway rider, suicide by hanging.
* Nizamuddin Shamzai, 51, Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar, assassinated.
* Ed Stanczak, 82, American basketball player (Anderson Packers, Boston Celtics).
* Klavdiya Tochonova, 82, Soviet Olympic shot putter.

### 31

* Lionel Abrahams, 76, South African novelist, poet, critic, and publisher.
* Pierre Duval, 71, French-Canadian operatic tenor.
* Artimus Parker, 52, American professional football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Jets).
* Robert Quine, 61, American punk rock guitarist, suicide by heroin overdose.
* Étienne Roda-Gil, 62, French songwriter, screenwriter and anarchist, stroke.